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'This course is a simulation of your professional work as an astronomer' 03 January 2023
What if I completely changed everything? A subject without lectures or exams, where the right answer is not important and where students work with the...
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'I always consider: What would have worked best for me?' 03 January 2023
Starting with the ‘why’, putting herself in her students’ shoes and providing structure. These are three ways in which environmental scientist Ranran ...
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Best presentation award for Andreea Nadaban at European congress 03 January 2023
A starring role for PhD candidate Andreea Nadaban during the annual meeting of the European Epidermal Barrier Research Network. With her talk about th...
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'This is the very best course there is' 02 January 2023
Martina Vijver has been nominated as Teacher of the Year of the Faculty of Science. She gets this nomination for the course Ecotoxicology she taught i...
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Corry Donner on her retirement: 'I’ll definitely miss the intellectual stimulation, but what I want most now is to get out of my head.' 22 December 2022
As Board Secretary, Corry Donner aims to be a ‘spider in the web’; someone who keeps a watchful eye on and brings together all the different perspecti...
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Photo report: Book launch 'Ruminations' by Tahir Abbas 20 December 2022
Tahir Abbas, Professor of Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, organised a book launch for his new book: 'Ruminatio...
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Researchers from Leiden University have received awards in Nationaal Groeifonds Quantum Technology programme 20 December 2022
Three researchers from Leiden University have received awards in the Quantum Technology programme within the National Growth Fund, organised by NWO i...
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Awards, grants, and special appointments: 2022’s Honours Gallery 19 December 2022
Over the past year, many students and staff members of Leiden Law School have been lauded for their extraordinary achievements. For instance: a grant ...
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Wei Chu receives SNMAP funding for dating earliest dwelling structures in Ukraine 19 December 2022
At some point in the deep past the first known dwelling structures were built out of mammoth bones in a country we now know as Ukraine. Archaeologist ...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' 19 December 2022
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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Leiden insolvency thesis wins annual BUREN thesis prize 16 December 2022
On 23 November 2022, the BUREN Thesis Prize on Insolvency Law was awarded for the fifth time. This year, two Leiden theses were nominated for this pri...
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Charlotte Parree wins Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award 16 December 2022
Charlotte Parree won the Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Prize on Tuesday afternoon, 6 December, with her thesis entitled 'Suffering knows no age; ...
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Inventors with a nose for technology 15 December 2022
Amidst the lathes and welding machines of the Fine Mechanics Department, Emiel Wiegers is working concentratedly on a metal cylinder. He and his colle...
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Max van Duijn and Vasiliki Kosta join The Young Academy 13 December 2022
Leiden researchers Max van Duijn (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) and Vasilika Kosta (Leiden Law School, Europa Institute) will join Th...
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Rachel Beckles Willson appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Music is interwoven with the big questions of our time’ 13 December 2022
Rachel Beckles Willson started her career as a concert pianist but was later captivated by the Middle Eastern stringed instrument called the oud. On 1...